How to Use clean sweep in a Sentence
clean sweep
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The clean sweep of the square did not last for long, however.
—Roger Owen, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2013
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Bochy felt Andrus had a clear path to the plate, and that Heim made a clean sweep tag.
—Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 21 June 2023
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The 49ers finished off a clean sweep of the NFC's other playoff teams.
—Josh Dubow, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2024
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But seven out of 10 isn’t the sort of clean sweep that sets off our data detectors.
—Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
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Female artists made a clean sweep of the three awards for international artists (that is, artists who hail from outside the U.K.).
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 2 Mar. 2024
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After this weekend’s clean sweep and its complete dominance at the SAG Awards, the movie doesn’t really need much in the way of luck.
—Glenn Whippcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2023
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Pagonis went a step further and predicted a clean sweep for big tech.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 May 2024
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The upset gave Miami a clean sweep of Indiana, coming a day after the men’s team also beat the Hoosiers in the second round.
—Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
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Have a game plan for day two The first day of your clean sweep may have left you feeling a mix of emotions, including exhaustion and satisfaction.
—Erica Lamberg, Fox News, 7 Oct. 2023
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But if Trump beats Haley, Trump's opponents will have missed probably their best chance to defeat him, and Trump will be well on the way to a clean sweep of all 56 states and territories.
—Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 2 Jan. 2024
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Down to foundational levels, a clean sweep of the Bulls must be further examined, all the way up to their front office’s consistent swings-and-misses.
—Evan Sidery, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
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During the party congress last year, Xi secured a historic third term in power and stacked his top team with loyalists in a clean sweep not seen since the Mao Zedong era decades before.
—Laura He, CNN, 3 July 2023
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In the international narrative competition, A Strange Path took a straight path to a clean sweep and won all four categories.
—Vulture, 19 June 2023
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Worries have been growing about China’s future direction since October, when Xi stacked his top team with loyalists in a clean sweep not seen since the Mao era.
—Laura He, CNN, 13 Mar. 2023
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However, this year, Australia dominated the list of readers' favorite hotels in the region, with a clean sweep from Sydney.
—Chloe Sachdev, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2023
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Rather than making a clean sweep of all Corinthian students’ debt, the Obama Administration took a different approach.
—Eleni Schirmer, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2023
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The top high-trust countries are a clean sweep of the top spots on Transparency International’s rankings of corruption as perceived by both the public and business leaders, with Denmark currently on top.
—Marshall Ingwerson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Feb. 2024
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On Election Day, Republicans here harnessed fears about rising crime and one-party Democratic rule to run a nearly clean sweep through competitive districts and secure their majority.
—Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
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